[liberationtech] Cyber experts come together to fight COVID-19-related hacking

[Boris Rohozinski]

It’s open to individuals and civil society experts in information security.
Basically it’s a crowd sourced effort of the best talent from across the
board.

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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:52 AM Peter Micek <petermicek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are these things open to civil society or independent technologists? Or is
> it just corporate?
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:35 AM Boris Rohozinski <r.rohozinski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There’s also a Canadian effort which is much more narrowly focussed on
>> protecting hospitals, cities in critical infrastructure but which is
>> federated to the COVID-19 CTI league as well.
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid19-cyber-companies-1.5508570
>>
>> If there are any Canadians here who would like to jump in and support,
>> the group can be accessed from here:
>>
>>
>> https://join.slack.com/t/covid19cyber-canada/shared_invite/zt-d5097lti-K46xNVA~9i6qpvAZT_2v9g
>>
>> Rafal
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>> On Mar 26, 2020, at 2:46 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>> Called the COVID-19 CTI League, for cyber threat intelligence, the group
>> spans more than 40 countries and includes professionals in senior positions
>> at such major companies as Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc .
>>
>> One of four initial managers of the effort, Marc Rogers, said the top
>> priority would be working to combat hacks against medical facilities and
>> other frontline responders to the pandemic. It is already working on hacks
>> of health organizations.
>>
>> Also key is the defense of communication networks and services that have
>> become essential as more people work from home, said Rogers, head of
>> security at the long-running hacking conference Def Con and a vice
>> president at security company Okta Inc .
>>
>> The group is also using its web of contacts in internet infrastructure
>> providers to squash garden-variety phishing attacks and another financial
>> crime that is using the fear of COVID-19 or the desire for information on
>> it to trick regular internet users.
>>
>> Rogers said the group had already dismantled one campaign that used a
>> software vulnerability to spread malicious software. He declined to provide
>> details, and said that in general the group would be reluctant to reveal
>> what it was fighting.
>>
>> Rogers said law enforcement had been surprisingly welcoming of the
>> collaboration, recognizing the vastness of the threat.
>>
>> Rogers is a UK citizen based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two other
>> group coordinators are American, and one is Israeli.
>>
>>
>> https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2020-03-25/cybersecurity-experts-come-together-to-fight-coronovirus-related-hacking
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